[mythtv-users] MythWeb filename to actual filename

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Fri Apr 3 19:31:26 UTC 2009


Bobby Gill wrote:
> /media/myth # /usr/share/mythtv/contrib/mythrename.pl --link --format 
> "%T-%S-%R_%Y.%m.%d"
> Can't create symlink /media/myth/show_names/60 Minutes- Edited down to 
> just Ben Bernanke- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talks about 
> what went wrong with the country's financial system and when the 
> recession might end; Alice Waters has been touting the virtues of 
> fresh foods grown in an environmentally friendly way for 
> decades._2009.03.15.mpg:  File name too long
>
So then change your format so that the name is no longer so absurdly 
long.  Take out the 'description', thats the '%R'.  You should probably 
give it an alternate director to store the links as well.


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